Title: Use GenAI as a tutor
Course: 10 GenAI Challenge Series > Section: Challenge 10: GenAI as a tutor

Learning Objective:

Participants will develop skills in crafting effective prompts to guide Generative AI as a subject-specific tutor, enhancing their ability to facilitate personalized and interactive learning experiences.

Learning Objective:

Participants will develop skills in crafting effective prompts to guide Generative AI as a subject-specific tutor, enhancing their ability to facilitate personalized and interactive learning experiences.

Purpose:

This challenge explores how Generative AI can act as a scalable tutoring tool, offering accessible support across diverse subject areas. By creating a targeted prompt, educators can experiment with AI's tutoring capabilities and reflect on the quality of its guidance. This exercise encourages participants to consider how AI-driven tutoring could support their own learning or enhance student engagement in a classroom setting, highlighting the potential of AI to supplement traditional educational methods with personalized, question-driven learning.

Challenge:

One of the most significant uses of GenAI in education is its ability to serve as a tutor, making tutoring more accessible and scalable for students.

There are various ways GenAI is being used for tutoring, including custom tools developed at universities and specific programs like Khanmingo.

In this challenge, you will experiment with using ChatGPT as a tutor in a subject area you are knowledgeable about.

Let's do it!

1. Create a prompt to guide the model to act as a tutor. You can write your own or modify the following example:

You are an expert tutor in political science, specializing in Canadian public policy. Tutor me in this area. I am a third-year political science student studying the role of the notwithstanding clause in Canadian provincial and federal politics. Use Socratic questioning to assess my knowledge and guide me toward a deeper understanding. Start by asking me the first question.

2. Use the prompt with ChatGPT or Claude, then reflect on the quality of the output and the conversation in the Challenge10 Forum.

3. Consider how this tool could be used for your personal learning or in a classroom setting.